Originally, it was one of three planetariums owned by Atlanta Public Schools (the other two being at Fulton and Harper High).

The students attended the North Fulton campus,[5] until June 1994, while the former Northside High School underwent a $15 million renovation.

Starting in 2004, Newsweek rated North Atlanta as being one of the best high schools in the country for three consecutive years.

[7] In the spring of 2008, the Aga Khan visited and gave a speech at North Atlanta as a part of the annual IB conference.

Juilliard began its inaugural Summer Jazz program in June 2008, and planned to continue the camp in future years.

In order to alleviate overcrowding at Sutton Middle School, around 2009 APS issued a proposal to create state-of-the-art facilities for NAHS elsewhere in Buckhead, and to use the then-current NAHS facilities on Northside Drive at Kingswood Lane as a new middle school.

[8] APS purchased a former IBM office building on Northside Parkway in the Paces neighborhood of Atlanta, along with its 56 acres (23 ha) wooded campus.

The 11-story building, which previously housed 5,000 IBM employees in its 507,093 square feet (47,110.5 m2), was converted to new facilities for NAHS students.

Another building, deemed unsuitable for the school, was imploded on October 27, 2012, to be rebuilt as a theater and gymnasium, among other purposes.